Varyag
@Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Certified foxgirl enjoyer. Weeb, but hasn’t properly watched anime in ages. Gamer of incresingly niche subgenres. Aficionado of racecars, mechas, fighter jets, and any other vehicles you can think of. Lives in the wrong side of the planet compared to all my friends. Made way too many Fedi accounts
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 week ago:
Gran Tourismo 2 and 4, Ridge Racer Type 4, Burnout 3 Takedown and NFSU2/MW. I like a lot of racing games but these are my favorite retro ones.
- Comment on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater teases new announcement with countdown 1 week ago:
It’s THPS 3+4 Remaster. They finallt got to make that.
- Comment on Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns 2 weeks ago:
I honestly loved it almost instantly, especially with the aspect that each settlement is a short time investment of a gaming session with semi randomized goals and build orders to get to those. While there are still overarching goals for the game as a whole.
- Comment on Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns 3 weeks ago:
It looks real good, but I’m still playing Aginst thr Storm, and will probably give Farthest Frontier a try before goong into this one. Still, it’s on my list!
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 3 weeks ago:
Yes that’s what I said. PS3 era games and at this point, early PS4 start yo qualify for me. Although still actively developed games aren’t “fully” retro, clearly. I’m still on the fence about calling Bloodbkrne retro, for instance.
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 3 weeks ago:
Around 2 generations of consoles ago, or around 10 years, whatever comes “first”.
- Comment on Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits 1 month ago:
Of course they did.
- Comment on Anything tempting you? 1 month ago:
I know it isn’t what you mentioned but it reminded me when I wad reading anyway. I am quite hyped for the new Heroes of Might and Magic.
- Comment on Ingredient of equivalent exchange 1 month ago:
This sjow goes so much wilder than just “haha, let’s cook monsters” and I love it
- Comment on How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? 1 month ago:
I got pretty much the same opinion as you, probably a bit angrier about all the shit they did, with Unreal Tournament, their store and spyware and exclusives, and their unoptimized bloated game engine taking over the industry.
So no, I guess I don’t claim those games or have an account. I already have a million games I’ll never finish playing on Steam and emulators anyway.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 1 month ago:
Oh hey capitalism wants to create the Daemonculaba.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 2 months ago:
When in doubt, true doubt, Doom is always there for me, in every device I own.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 2 months ago:
Me too. Stopped a couple years ago after I hit 2,000 hours of play time. This year I’ve played a lot of Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter, which I have a combined total of nearly 1,800 hours again.
- Comment on Favourite games to play around Christmas time? 2 months ago:
Usually around Christmas time it’s vacations and steam sale times and sometimes beach trips with my Switch and phone. So it depends a lot. But, also because of that, there are some games I played on the past in this time of the year that kinda got stuck with holidays vibes because of it. Some kf them are Doom, Quake and Monster Hunter. I think I’ll be playing Pokemon Platinum this year too, on my phone.
- Comment on Now is the time to cast off the boy you used to be 2 months ago:
Okay so what happens to Simon who finds a buried Gundam near his underground village with Kamina?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
Hmm for patient games I’m playing now… Does Super Robot Wars V count? I feel like I’ve mentioned it in several weekly threads already. I’ll also mention NFSU2 with the underground2.net modpack, then.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
Very good ARPG with tons of depth to build making and a nice dark fantasy theme. One half of my favorite Diablo-likes, the other being the much simpler and more casual Torchlight 2.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
That one is great! I love this indie trend of low poly graphics.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Been on Monster Hunter Sunbreak for a couple weeks now. It’s absolutely become my favorite modern monhun game, and it’s significantly improved my mental state.
Also playing Redout 2 and Blue Revolver, an old bullet hell shmup that just got a massive game revision.
Other than that, I was playing NFSU2 because of the 20th anniversary and the release of a great soft-remaster mod
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 months ago:
Monster Hunter. The first one I played, MH4U back in the 3DS days, I put 1,000 hours into. That was nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still playing the franchise to this day. Currently finally going through the Sunbreak expansion of Monster Hunter Rise on the PC, and noticing a marked improvement in my mental health over playing other games.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 3 months ago:
I just reinstalled NFSU2 because of the new big expansion mod underground2.net Between this, my brother wanting to play Halo, and the new Linkin Park album coming out this week, I feel like I’m in 2004 again.
- Comment on Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 3 months ago:
I’ve heard some queer friends talking about this game and I had no idea what it was. Now I know, and not only is this hilarious now I want to give it a try. It looks pretty cute.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 3 months ago:
Lol, lmao, no.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 months ago:
Played the beta last night and yeah, it got me in the mood for monster hunting again. Time to finally go play Sunbreak since I bought it ages ago, but never played through it again (bought the base game first on the Switch)
- Comment on Straftat recreates the experience of joining a random Half-Life or Quake deathmatch server in the year 2000 3 months ago:
Splendid, that description seems like fun. I’ll try it out.
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 months ago:
Fuck off, Denuvo.
Yes, the Steam forums are awful, but still. Fuck off. Nobody wants you here.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 4 months ago:
It doesn’t help when your scummy studio is infamous for it’s egregious DLC practices, nickel and diming basic game mechanics into a million separate packs. And then you have the gall to release a game as broken as that, after having the excellent prequel as comparison? And it’s still broken, a year after the initial release.
Yeah you bet your ass that customers won’t be accepting of that.
- Comment on ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton 4 months ago:
Oh wait, this isn’t the same Zoom of the video chats from the pandemic? I had no idea this store even existed. It having Linux support is a big plus now.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their Projects 4 months ago:
Companies want all games to be multiplayer with online live ops and events and a steady flow of microtransactions money.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 4 months ago:
It’s not just about the tech, it’s about their mindset. They’re stuck in that era mentally.